The verdict in the Major (retd) Sinha murder case was not just a victory for his family, but for all the families who have lost their loved ones to “crossfires” in the hands of Teknaf police.

The family of Nurunnahar Chowdhury, who recently went to the USA for higher education, has allegedly been ostracised by a local mosque committee in the district’s Kulaura upazila over her wearing short dresses and rumours over marrying a Hindu man there.

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate recovered 46 gold bars, worth around Tk 3 crore, from a wheel of an abandoned vehicle in GSE area of Shah Amanat International Airport Wednesday.

Some 40 leaders and activists, including BNP Central Cooperative Affairs Secretary GK Gaus, have been sent to jail in Habiganj on Tuesday.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict which in 2003 ruled that carrying and possessing Phensidyl is not a punishable offence.

A total of 272 women and girls faced violence in the first month of this year, said a report prepared by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.

Occupied footpaths have been a longstanding problem for commuters and pedestrians of Savar Bazar Bus Stand area.

Detectives arrested six more persons in connection with torturing and robbing Shafiqul Islam, a resident physician at a Tangail hospital, and other passengers on a moving bus on January 20.

Police arrested a death row convict of the seven-year-old child Rabbi murder case, who has been absconding for five years and seven months, from Jashore’s Lautara village last night.

A Chattogram court today sentenced a superintendent of madrasa to life term imprisonment in Satkania upazila for raping an assistant teacher in 2016.

Chattogram Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials recovered 46 gold bars, weighing around 5kg, from Shah Amanat International Airport in the port city this evening.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today scrapped a High Court verdict which in 2003 ruled that carrying and possessing Phensidyl is not a punishable offence.

The High Court today directed the government to submit -- to the court by April 17 -- a list of the names of buildings in Old Dhaka where chemical godowns, stores, and factories are running.

Film actress Pori Moni, accused in a narcotics case, could not appear before a Dhaka court today due to illness, her lawyer said.

A Feni court yesterday sentenced a woman to life term imprisonment in a case filed for killing a newborn in the district's Sadar upazila in 2008.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a Buddhist monk from a temple near Khagrachhari’s Gukrachhari Paimong Member Para village.

Major (retired) Sinha Md Rashed Khan’s murder was premeditated, a Cox’s Bazar court said yesterday as it handed down death sentence to suspended police officials Pradeep Kumar Das and Liaqat Ali for the killing.

Yesterday’s landmark verdict that sentenced two cops to death and six for life also offered a rare glimpse into how a “crossfire” is cooked up.

This is the first time in the country any law enforcer, let alone five, has been brought to book by a court for staging a “shootout”.

July 31, 2020 Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan shot dead by police at a checkpost on Marine Drive road, Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.